21 January—The Monitor’s consultant shrink emailed yesterday in amazement that the daily disquisition neglected—rather, surprisingly failed to take the incredibly obvious opportunity—to mention that Donald Trump is a prime example of emotional dysregulation, the inability to control emotional responses, manifested in mood swings, anger, irritability, and generally aberrant behavior. Classic affect, according to the shrink.

The shrink’s point was that emotional dysregulation should by itself disqualify anybody at all from being POTUS or holding any position of trust, let alone authority and power. Not that it has, of course. And when taken with Donald Trump’s frequently flaunted mental instability, he’s clearly unfit for the job and should in fact be institutionalized lest he inflict more harm on the nation than he’s already managed.

Unfortunately, a letter from a benighted soul from Cheshire in yesterday’s Republican-American doesn’t bode well. The poor thing writes, “Putting MAGA in front, Donald Trump’s the guy who gave us confidence and the belief that we could be ‘great again.’”

But that’s not all. The guileless, politically inept, reality blind fantisizer goes on, “Trump is not perfect, only God is, but he governs by faith, and he could do it even better if he had Congress governing by faith.” And he can do that because “he humbles himself to God to guide him.” [That’s an insult to God. Ed.]

As if that’s not enough, the delusional ditz really expects that Trump “will take us in the right direction, given the backing of a cohesive [i.e., purely Republican. Ed.] Congress, because he is a clear-thinking person who, although he muddles things up [like confusing Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. Ed.] in the long wrong [sic] makes the right decision.”

Above all, then “accept him and move on [because he] will preside in the capacity as president by always putting America first.” [God save us! Ed.]

That letter says it all. Well, lots, anyway. And it’s why Donald Trump stands a better than even chance of being re-elected this year.

And Trump’s chance got even better on Friday when Tim Scott, the freshman U.S. senator from South Carolina, who just happens to be black, officially pulled out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination (that no one remembered he was in) and couldn’t wait to enthusiastically throw his support behind Trump, rather than Nikki Haley, former governor of his state. Scott’s current mantra is “We need Donald Trump!”

Think Vice President Tim Scott. That’s what Tim must be thinking. He’s darker than Kamala Harris. And, more important, he’s not Kamala Harris. So the only thing he has going against him, as Trump would put it, is that he’s not a broad.

Many people are one-issue voters and for too many of them that issue is religion or color. Trump (who is not a racist, by the way) has been able to attract voters of color without Tim Scott’s help, so you can imagine how many more he’ll pick up with Tim’s help.

It’s certainly nothing to look forward to . . .